Comments by "gerhard7" (@gerhard7323) on "The Duran" channel.

  1. What have WE done? SO, SO stupid.
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  2. A relevant point and something it doesn't hurt to make people aware of as is similarly the case with Scott Ritter's less than edifying past. It doesn't though make him wrong and nor should it deprive him from making a living or sharing his knowledge and insights.
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  3. Dog in failure to stop tail wagging shocker!!....read on....
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  4. Both the US and Europe have long made it their policy to destabilise other countries around the world, including those effectively on their doorsteps, and then complain when many of these benighted populations opt to leave these countries and flee to both the US and Europe. It's a fiercely misguided hoping to have you cake and eat it mindset that has ironically led to them destabilising and fracturing of their own societies.
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  5. I could probably cope with being lassoed by Meloni 🦊
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  6. And that is a fair point and precisely why he needs to be called out by ALL of us should he become president and instigate such policies. Trump is totemic ONLY in as much as he and his treatment demonstrates how rotten to its core the US body politic is, but that doesn't and should NEVER give him a free pass should he become POTUS again.
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  7. The Ukraine war has been a complete disaster for Europe. Rather like Biden's years of obvious mental decline which were happening in plain sight Europe's decision makers are still insisting the emperor isn't naked even as an incredulous crowd looks on.
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  8. The EU is a centralised top down technocratic kakistocracy. Not a great combination to be honest.
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  9. Off afterwards to a funeral, wedding or court case😂
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  10. Way, way, way before that...
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  11. The time for an overweighted Germany leaving the Euro thereby saving it now seems long since past. Its years of prosperous membership within made it a devalued in its own interests DM by any other name. Its high end exports remained far cheaper than they would otherwise have been if constrained by the DM. Problem now being that its beggar thy neighbours reliance on it has also effectively destroyed the viable European competition.
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  12. The problem with ALL of this of course is that Trump's US is, despite it being the longtime instigator of this now lost war, is now washing its hands of it whilst simultaneously appearing to throw Europe under the bus. Whether this is a deal making tactic by Trump in order to get craven, petrified European leaders to cave and pony up more dough for NATO despite their ongoing economic woes largely caused by the Ukraine war remains to be seen, but when seen in the context of the US long trying to break European reliance on cheap Russian energy it looks much much worse even than it first appears.
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  13. Totally agree with Alexander. It would be a truly liberating moment.
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  14. Aww, f*ck it, give it ME. Being one, I'll make damn sure I'll do my level best to serve the interests of the British people.
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  15. ?
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  16. Yep. It was a flagrant undermining of democracy generally by 'The Troika', nevermind just Greece's, and the final neoliberal nail in the country's independence.
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  17. Fair point but that, by extension, inevitably raises questions about the validity of Russian 'democratic' elections does it not?
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  18. Always blame the Norwegian, right?
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  19.  @DaveJordan310  Only messing. Thanks for the info though.
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  20. Yeh, yeh Matt Bianco....
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  21. Because they quietly and respectfully disagree on numerous issues rather than resort to shouting over each other and some might be too dumb to actually realise that without glaringly obvious cues you mean?
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  22.  @warhurst1968  To be fair neither have I.
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  23. Golda Meir showed quite how far she'd push the US with the threat of deploying Israel's Samson Doctrine in 1973. Israel's unofficially declared nuclear weapons are, thus far, its trump card. The US has long ago made its 'bed of nails' as JM says. Not least by being fully complicit in the denial of their existence. The question is how long is it willing to lie on it?
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  24. ALL political careers ultimately end in failure... ....or if you're lucky in Brussels if you're a failed European politician.
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  25. Hmm, something doesn't quite add up here... The West is scrambling around desperately trying to secure for itself the very fossil fuels it is berating others for using and it endlessly makes a public virtue of it doing away with.
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  26. Yes there is. It's called the €.
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  27. How so?
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  28. Uncertainty and unpredictablilty are ALWAYS profitable. Certainty and predictability sadly aren't. It's a no brainer for some and explains their interest in fomenting it.
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  29. Funny how the US and NATO were SO keen to intervene and prevent genocide and ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and yet they are effectively facilitating them currently in Gaza????
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  30. There's no more a Jewish race than there is a Muslim or Christian one.
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  31. Worth reminding ourselves that both Finland and Sweden only joined NATO recently because of the Ukraine war.
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  32. In today's America pursuing diplomacy has too long been pursued as weakness. Unless they get their own way SO completely and entirely then they've failed. How sad is that.
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  33. Trump is already getting some European countries talking of ponying up more dough ie 5% of GDP for their defence despite their, in some cases, cratering economies. He's basically playing Europe like a Strad now. What a bunch of doofusses.
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  34. Agreed. Average Ukrainians SHOULD be livid with the West. Many have fought and died on a false pretext for nothing. Nothing.
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  35. If 'the state' wants rid of you then the 'the state' WILL get its way.
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  36. What's the Belgian Road Initiative?
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  37. Let's also not forget that both Sweden and Finland were bumped into Nato by the politicians off the back of this false premise. Not small beer.
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  38. Thanks for saving me some time.
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  39. Iran aims for and largely hits Israeli military and intelligence targets - news of which is actively still suppressed by Israeli and Western media - whilst Israel shoots and bombs indiscriminately in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. Despicable acts which we all know about thanks to our mainstream media and portrayed as if they're some kind of glorious settling of accounts. Remind me. Just what are 'Western values' again?
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  40. Diplomacy can only work if it is founded on trust. The West has repeatedly demonstrated over decades that it cannot be trusted in negotiations with Russia. It is an unreliable partner, to put it mildly. Little wonder now that it refuses to negotiate with Russia at all as it knows its disingenuous approach has finally run out of road and brass tacks would be the only way forward.
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  41. If Starmer's a socialist then I'm a Dutchman.
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  42. China has been the dominant culture throughout human history with only the occasional nadir. No other culture comes close to being able to make that claim. THAT deserves respect.
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  43. Perhaps you can clarify? He's the Democrat nominee for 2024 AND the current POTUS. His name along with Harris's are on the 2024 campaign ticket and any donations thus far have been made to them, legally speaking, and them alone. Should he withdraw now then Harris not only becomes the President until November, it still doesn't solve the thorny problem as to what happens in November where both he and she are the only legally nominated candidates with access to those campaign funds in the meantime.
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  44.  @dankervick7962  The party can't do anything until Biden is removed or he agrees to go. If he won't go quietly or unless he's removed, in his own words, by God Almighty, then someone's going to have to invoke the 25th Amendment. That's either going to be Kamala Harris in an 'et tu Brute move' with support or separately sufficient numbers of Democrat Congressional members. Any which way this is going to be messy for the Democrats.
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  45.  @dankervick7962  Either Biden pulls out voluntarily, 'God Almighty' intervenes or the Dems, most likely via Harris, instigate the 25th Amendment. This is a long foreseeable mess of their own making. To borrow from a well known phrase, 'they have been hoist by their own retard'.
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  46.  @dankervick7962  Unable to reply unfortunately.
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  47. The Ukraine war has, in effect, allowed the US to kill two birds with one stone. Seriously knocking back both Europe, an economic competitor, and weakening Russia, a military competitor.
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  48. The AIPAC/Israel tail wagging the US dog simply doesn't wash I'm afraid. I have little doubt that US Congress is beholden to some degree to AIPAC/Israel cash as are both the current presidential candidates and current president but the elephant in the room is the geopolitical role Israel fulfills in the oil rich region where also much of global trade must pass. Israel is the constant stone in the shoe of the ME and gives America and the West a permanent lever in the region. Hence the reason America's support for Israel is 'ironclad' even going so far as to having to support and defend a genocide that is happening in plain sight.
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  49. Weird thing here is that this is far more 'live' and 'hot' than the Cuban Missile Crisis and yet Western media unlike Russian media seems to be largely oblivious to it???
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  50. War pigs.
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